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{
"term": "bounce",
"partOfSpeech": "verb",
"ox5000": true,
"cefr": "c1",
"verbForms": {
"presentSimple": {
"iYouWeThey": "bounce",
"heSheIt": "bounces"
},
"pastSimple": "bounced",
"pastParticiple": "bounced",
"ingForm": "bouncing"
},
"definitions": [
{
"senseNumber": 1,
"definition": "if something bounces or you bounce it, it moves quickly away from a surface it has just hit or you make it do this",
"sensetop": "bounce off something+ adv./prep.bounce something (against/on/off something)",
"labels": "(figurative)",
"cefr": "c1",
"examples": [
{
"text": "The ball bounced twice before he could reach it."
},
{
"text": "Short sound waves bounce off even small objects.",
"contextForm": "bounce off something"
},
{
"text": "The light bounced off the river and dazzled her."
},
{
"text": "The ball bounced high and she missed it.",
"contextForm": "+ adv./prep."
},
{
"text": "She bounced the ball against the wall.",
"contextForm": "bounce something (against/on/off something)"
},
{
"text": "The stone hit the window but bounced off."
},
{
"text": "The idea had been bouncing around in my head for some time."
}
],
"collocations": {
"adverb": ["high", "back", "off"],
"preposition": ["against", "around", "down"]
}
},
{
"senseNumber": 2,
"definition": "to jump up and down on something",
"sensetop": "bounce (up and down) (on something)",
"cefr": "c1",
"examples": [
{
"text": "She bounced up and down excitedly on the bed."
}
]
},
{
"senseNumber": 3,
"definition": "to move a child up and down while they are sitting on your knee in order to entertain them",
"sensetop": "bounce somebody (up and down) (on something)",
"cefr": "c1",
"examples": [
{
"text": "I bounced the baby on my knee while Pete did the dishes."
}
]
},
{
"senseNumber": 4,
"definition": "to move up and down; to move something up and down",
"sensetop": "bounce (something) (up and down)",
"cefr": "c1",
"examples": [
{
"text": "Her hair bounced as she walked."
}
]
},
{
"senseNumber": 5,
"definition": "to move up and down in a particular direction",
"sensetop": "+ adv./prep.",
"examples": [
{
"text": "The bus bounced down the hill."
},
{
"text": "The car bounced its way along the dirt road."
}
]
},
{
"senseNumber": 6,
"definition": "to move somewhere in a lively and cheerful way",
"sensetop": "+ adv./prep.",
"cefr": "c2",
"examples": [
{
"text": "He bounced across the room to greet them."
}
],
"topics": ["Personal qualities"]
},
{
"senseNumber": 7,
"definition": "if a cheque bounces, or a bank bounces it, the bank refuses to accept it because there is not enough money in the bank account to pay it",
"sensetop": "bounce (something)",
"labels": "(informal)",
"examples": []
},
{
"senseNumber": 8,
"definition": "to tell somebody your ideas in order to find out what they think about them",
"sensetop": "bounce ideas (off somebody)/(around)",
"examples": [
{
"text": "He bounced ideas off colleagues everywhere he went."
}
]
},
{
"senseNumber": 9,
"definition": "if an email bounces or the system bounces it, it returns to the person who sent it because the system cannot deliver it",
"sensetop": "bounce (something) (back)",
"cefr": "c2",
"examples": [
{
"text": "I tried to send her an email but it bounced."
},
{
"text": "The system automatically bounces emails which contain attachments."
}
],
"topics": ["Phones, email and the internet"]
},
{
"senseNumber": 10,
"definition": "to force somebody to leave a job, team, place, etc.",
"sensetop": "bounce somebody (from something)",
"labels": "(informal)",
"examples": [
{
"text": "He was soon bounced from the post."
}
]
},
{
"senseNumber": 11,
"definition": "to leave a place or group of people",
"labels": "(informal)",
"examples": [
{
"text": "All right, cool, we'll bounce."
}
]
},
{
"senseNumber": null,
"definition": "to be so full of energy or so excited that you cannot keep still",
"labels": "(informal)",
"examples": [
{
"text": "The kids have been bouncing off the walls all day."
}
]
}
],
"pronunciations": {
"uk": [
{
"pronunciation": "/baʊns/",
"audio": "bo/bounce/bounce__gb_2.mp3"
},
{
"pronunciation": "/ˈbaʊnsɪz/",
"audio": "bo/bounce/bounces__gb_1.mp3"
},
{
"pronunciation": "/baʊnst/",
"audio": "bo/bounce/bounced__gb_1.mp3"
},
{
"pronunciation": "/ˈbaʊnsɪŋ/",
"audio": "bo/bounce/bouncing__gb_2.mp3"
}
],
"us": [
{
"pronunciation": "/baʊns/",
"audio": "bo/bounce/bounce__us_1.mp3"
},
{
"pronunciation": "/ˈbaʊnsɪz/",
"audio": "bo/bounce/bounces__us_1.mp3"
},
{
"pronunciation": "/baʊnst/",
"audio": "bo/bounce/bounced__us_1.mp3"
},
{
"pronunciation": "/ˈbaʊnsɪŋ/",
"audio": "bo/bounce/bouncing__us_2.mp3"
}
]
},
"wordOrigin": "Middle English bunsen ‘beat, thump’, perhaps imitative, or from Low German bunsen ‘beat’, Dutch bons ‘a thump’."
}